Device for holding artificial flies



(No Model.)

M. A. SI-IIPLEY.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING ARTIFICIAL PLIBS, HOOKS, &c. No. 326,794. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MALCOLM A. SHIPLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

SPECIFICATICN forming part of, Letters Patent No. 326,794, dated September 22, 1885. Application filed May 14, 1885. (No model.)

1'0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MALCOLM A. SHIPLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks or Clasps for Holding Arti ficial Flies, Snood-Hooks, and the like, for fishermens use; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon,which form part of this specification.

Myinvention has relation to a new and improved hook for securing the various forms of artificial bait and the snell or snood hooks used by fishermen in proper position in the hook-book; and the object is to provide a clasp or hook for this purpose, whereby the hooks will be kept in their proper place, each separate from the other, in such a manner that the snells or snoods will'be straight, to prevent curling or tangling, and at the same time admit of the ready removal of one or more without interfering with the rest; and to these ends the novelty consists in the construction of the hook or clasp as will be hereinafter more fully described,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same letters of reference indicate like parts of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved clasp or hook as it appears ready for attaching to the leaf of the hook-book. Fig. 2 is a reverse View of the same, and Figs. 3

and 4 are top plan views of modifications of the same.

A is a spring-metal clasp or hook, the base of which is provided with teeth B B B, by means of which it may be secured to one of the leaves of the book. 0 is the spring tongue or clasp, bent over and parallel with the base A, the whole being made integral with the base A by being stamped out of sheet metal, then having the teeth B bent downward at a right angle to the base, to admit of their ready insertion through the material composing the leaf of the book. The teeth are then bent back upon the base A, so as to firmly secure it to the leaf. Two of these clasps are secured to the leaf, a suitable distance apart and parallel to each other, and the hook is inserted flatwise in one and the snood or snell drawn un der the other in a straight line, both the hook and the snood being held in their respective places by the spring 0. It will thus be seen that by attaching a number of pairs of these clasps to a page a corresponding number of the hooks or flies may be secured in place upon each page.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the teeth are dispensed with and rivets 1) used to secure the base to the leaf, while in Fig. 4 an eyelet, G, is used for the same purpose, and it is obvious these modifications may be used without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s

The base A and spring-tongue 0, made integral,and provided with means,substantially as described, for securing the same to the leaf of the book, as and for the purpose set forth.

M. A. SHIPLEY.

Vitnesses:

HOWARD W. SHIPLEY, FRANK LAVERTY. 

